Finding a set of web pages relevant to a user’s information goal is difficult due to the enormous size of the Internet. Search engines are able to find a set of pages that mat...
Person name queries often bring up web pages that correspond to individuals sharing the same name. The Web People Search (WePS) task consists of organizing search results for ambi...
We present a graph-theoretic approach to discover storylines from search results. Storylines are windows that offer glimpses into interesting themes latent among the top search re...
The rapid development of web image search engines has enabled users to search hundred million of images available on the Web. However, due to the unsatisfactory performance of cur...
It is expected that more and more people will search the web when they are on the move. Though conventional search engines can be directly visited from mobile devices with web bro...